2018年7月13日 星期五

The Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote about Rembrandt:

"Your life, with its immensity and fear,...now bounded, now immeasurable,it is alternately stone in you and star."(from 'Evening', Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell)

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The Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote about Rembrandt: "Is not that the great mystery of Rembrandt that he wrote of man as a landscape?" Through the means of light and shadow, through which he perceives the essence of the morning or the secret of the evening, he spoke of the life of those he wrote, and at the same time, it grew stronger and wider ... We know quite a bit of Rembrandt's landscapes, and yet he was a landscape painter, perhaps the greatest of all and one of the greatest artists in general.He could paint portraits because he looked deeply at faces, with distant horizon and high clouds th mobile skies ".

This thought of Rilke about visionary travel and country faces is also important because Rembrandt never left his native Holland. He also refused to travel to Rome, the "home of the arts," the center of European artistic life (in the 17th century, a visit to Italy was considered necessary for the completion of education). Here is what the French symbolist artist Odilon Redon wrote about this Rembrandt line:

"... I think that Rembrandt's great style, coming from his heart and his all-encompassing mind, is connected with the tranquility of his immobile life." He never left Amsterdam and advised his students not to go anywhere, even to Italy. to say that immobility creates genius, but it seems to me that his genius, his humane and human vision, would not have gained anything from a heap of impressions far from those models that he always had before his eyes.In diversity, the deep and single, which he He wounded in a secluded refuge of his dreams and thoughts ... ".

Find out what Van Gogh and Gauguin, Auguste Rodin and Henri Matisse wrote, and talked about Rembrandt, Ilya Repin and Vasily Kandinsky. In the article of the Virtual Academy "About Rembrandt" we have collected for you the most interesting statements! http://bit.ly/2Ne1aF0